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The Battle of the Atlantic has been called the "longest, largest, and most complex" naval battle in history. [15] The campaign started immediately after the European war began, during the so-called " Phoney War ", and lasted more than five years, until the German surrender in May 1945.
The Battle of the Atlantic by John Costello and Terry Hughes (1977, Collins, London) OCLC 464381083; Barone, João (2013) 1942: O Brasil e sua guerra quase desconhecida (1942: Brazil and its almost forgotten war) (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro, ISBN 8520933947; Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith & Don Kinde.World War II Sea War, Vol 5.
The action of 4 April 1941 was a naval engagement fought during the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War.A German commerce raider, Thor (Schiff 10 to the Kriegsmarine, Raider E to the British), encountered the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Voltaire and sank her after a short engagement.
The Atlantic campaign was a tonnage war; the UBW needed to sink ships faster than they could be replaced to win, and needed to build more U-boats than were lost in order not to lose. Before May 1943, the UBW was not winning; even in their worst months, the majority of convoys arrived without being attacked, while even in those that were ...
The Second Happy Time (German: Zweite glückliche Zeit; officially Operation Paukenschlag ("Operation Drumbeat"), and also known among German submarine commanders as the "American Shooting Season" [1]) was a phase in the Battle of the Atlantic during which Axis submarines attacked merchant shipping and Allied naval vessels along the east coast of North America.
1939–1945 Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945) 1939 1 September Danzig Bay – German Stuka dive bombers destroy much of the Polish Navy; 1–3 September Battle of Hel – Surviving Polish warships engage German invasion fleet. All Polish ships are sunk or captured.
She served primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Matane, Quebec. Matane was originally ordered as Stormont [2] in October 1941 as part of the 1942–1943 River-class building program. [3] [4] She was laid down on 23 December 1942 by Canadian Vickers Ltd. at Montreal, Quebec and launched 29 May 1943. [4]
A U-boat shells a merchant ship which has remained afloat after being torpedoed. The early phase of the Battle of the Atlantic during which German Navy U-boats enjoyed significant success against the British Royal Navy and its Allies was referred to by U-boat crews as "the Happy Time" ("Die Glückliche Zeit"), [1] and later the First Happy Time, after a second successful period was encountered.
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